Volume 61, Issue 2, Spring 2017

Special Issue: On Philosophical Education

C. Long

Pages 351-363

DOI: 10.5840/philtoday201713141

Care of DeathOn the Teaching of Reiner Schürmann

A homage in the guise of an essay, this is the story of the last course Reiner Schürmann taught. As a text, it attempts to describe, situate, and come to terms with the power of Schürmann’s teaching in the context of his last lectures on Heidegger’s Being and Time. But if it is to be true to the deepest lessons of Schürmann’s thinking, it will also need to be heard as an invitation to interpret together the significance of his reading so that it may be permitted to shape the course of the lives of those who encounter it.